[3.16.y-ckt extended stable] Patch "drm/radeon: dpm fixes for asrock systems" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Nov 10 11:33:39 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/radeon: dpm fixes for asrock systems

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt1.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 43ca420389ab1b76a039893e81cef429218afd40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 15:10:21 -0400
Subject: drm/radeon: dpm fixes for asrock systems

commit 72b3f9183ed57e4a2f0601a1c25ae2fd39855952 upstream.

- bapm seems to cause CPU stuck messages so disable it.
- nb dpm seems to prevent GPU dpm from getting enabled, so
disable it.

bug:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85107

Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher at amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c
index 67cb472d188c..e79b7ebf5894 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/kv_dpm.c
@@ -2725,7 +2725,11 @@ int kv_dpm_init(struct radeon_device *rdev)

         pi->sram_end = SMC_RAM_END;

-	pi->enable_nb_dpm = true;
+	/* Enabling nb dpm on an asrock system prevents dpm from working */
+	if (rdev->pdev->subsystem_vendor == 0x1849)
+		pi->enable_nb_dpm = false;
+	else
+		pi->enable_nb_dpm = true;

 	pi->caps_power_containment = true;
 	pi->caps_cac = true;
@@ -2740,10 +2744,19 @@ int kv_dpm_init(struct radeon_device *rdev)
 	pi->caps_sclk_ds = true;
 	pi->enable_auto_thermal_throttling = true;
 	pi->disable_nb_ps3_in_battery = false;
-	if (radeon_bapm == 0)
+	if (radeon_bapm == -1) {
+		/* There are stability issues reported on with
+		 * bapm enabled on an asrock system.
+		 */
+		if (rdev->pdev->subsystem_vendor == 0x1849)
+			pi->bapm_enable = false;
+		else
+			pi->bapm_enable = true;
+	} else if (radeon_bapm == 0) {
 		pi->bapm_enable = false;
-	else
+	} else {
 		pi->bapm_enable = true;
+	}
 	pi->voltage_drop_t = 0;
 	pi->caps_sclk_throttle_low_notification = false;
 	pi->caps_fps = false; /* true? */
--
2.1.0





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